Re: Strange Message in HyperCard

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From: beloin
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1987 02:14

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In article <531@atux01.UUCP> jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore) writes:
>....
>to "Print Card" I got a dialog box that said:  "Say 'Please'!" <OK> <Cancel>
>
>Why did I get this message?  Is this some hidden joke by the Apple people
>that I've discovered (or by Bill Atkinson), or is it a joke by the SuperMac
>people?

I've run across this in the help system. I don't remember which card,
but it was explaining how to intercept menu commands, and there was
a card scrit that put up the dialog mentioned above when a menu was chosen,
so the example/joke made sense in that context. Since you printing the
help cards, you must have run into it when you tried to select Print...
--ron.
beloin@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu or beloin@crnlthry.bitnet

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From: beloin@batcomputer.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Strange Message in HyperCard
Message-ID: <2398@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 22:14:24 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 19 22:14:24 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 16:45:12 EDT
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Reply-To: beloin@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Ron Beloin)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Keywords: What does THIS mean?
Summary: I've seen it the help file as an example

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